Books Quotes

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

George Steiner

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Jesse Lee Bennett

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Walter Pater

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way

Caroline Gordon

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Welch Bush

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.

Unknown

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

Unknown

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

A good book has no ending.

R.D. Cumming

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P.J. O\'Rourke

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.

Joe Ryan

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

Thomas Helm

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Franz Kafka

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

Helen Exley

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